health

Jane Walter of Toledo, Ohio was licked in the face by her cat and ended up going blind in her left eye. Why? Because she got cat-scratch disease, which is a bacterial infection that 40% of cats get at some point in their life. If cat-scratch disease (CSD) is transmitted to humans, the effects can be horrible. How did we not know about this?
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Women looking to get their freak back may soon be able to pop a new breed of lust drug: Lybrido. But scientists developing the desire pill sometimes called “female Viagra” confided in one writer an unusual worry. They fear the libido-booster may work too well. (And the problem with that is …?) Journalist Daniel Bergner, […]
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Don’t chicken out: Eat insects. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization just released a report that strongly suggests bug consumption, both to curb hunger in developing countries and shrink waistlines in the Western world. Since the planet’s population is on track to top 9 billion by 2050, we’d better get used to noshing on […]
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Is your man grumpy today? He may blame it on work but there might be another explanation. In this month’s issue, Cosmopolitan reminded the world of the existence of PMS’ masculine counterpart, Irritable Male Syndrome. Cosmo expert Dr. Yael Varnado explains: “… some (men) go through what’s called the male PMS: ‘IMS’ (Irritable Male Syndrome). This […]
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Turkey, for all its health benefits as a lean protein, harbors a dirty secret. Read on and you’ll wish you could un-learn it. Ground turkey, it turns out, is teeming with fecal bacteria. Consumer Reports says more than half the samples in a just-published study tested positive for poop germs, among other things. And nine […]
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